KR100782904B1 - Treatment apparatus for food scrap - Google Patents

Abstract

A food garbage disposing apparatus is provided to manage sanitary conditions of a sink more economically by minimizing disposal of food garbage and installation cost of related equipment, to pulverize, dewater and dry food garbage automatically, and enable a filtering mesh to be cleaned and dried through a series of operations. A food garbage disposing apparatus comprises: a cylindrical housing-shaped body(10) of which a bottom part is opened such that the body can be easily assembled into a filtering mesh of a drain(2) of a sink(1) or disassembled from the filtering mesh thereof; a rack gear(20) formed at an inner side of the body in a vertical direction; a pinion gear or a worm gear(30) that is engaged with the rack gear; an up and down moving motor(40) for driving the pinion gear or the worm gear; and a predetermined pulverizing equipment in which the up and down moving motor is installed and moved up and down along the rack gear to pulverize food garbage in the filtering mesh.

Description

Food Waste Processor {TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR FOOD SCRAP}

1 is an exemplary view of a conventional food waste processor.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the food waste processor of the present invention.

Figure 3 is an exploded view of the food waste processor of the present invention is separated from the sink.

4 is a cross-sectional view of the food waste processor of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of a portion A of FIG. 4.

Figure 6 is a state diagram used food waste treatment machine of the present invention.

Figure 7 is an operating state diagram for the process of separation after the food waste treatment machine of the present invention is used.

8 is a cross-sectional view of the rotary shaft and the grinding blade of the food waste treatment machine of the present invention.

9 is a cross-sectional view of the body of the food waste treatment machine of the present invention.

10 is a cross-sectional view of another embodiment of the food waste treatment machine of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

1: sink 3: filter sieve

10 body 12 coupling part

12a: working shaft 12b-3: contact member

12c: connecting member 12d: elastic member

14: combining button 18: handle

20: rack gear 30: worm gear

40: Shanghai East Motor 50: Crushing device

52: grinding drive unit 52b: control unit

54: axis of rotation 54a: through hole

56: grinding blade 58: grinding motor

The present invention relates to a food waste treatment machine, and more particularly, a predetermined grinding device is provided on a cylindrical body having an open bottom portion so as to be easily coupled to and separated from the filter body of an existing sink drain. The present invention relates to a food waste processor that grinds food waste in the sieve while moving.

In general, the sink to clean the food to cook food, or to eat food containers after washing.

After finishing cooking in such a sink, food waste is always generated, so that food waste does not enter the sewer, a filter sieve is provided for separately handling food waste.

As a conventional sink food waste processor 100, as in the Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 2002-63037 (sink food waste separator device) shown in Figure 1, connected to the drain of the sink 101 fixedly installed Mainly used.

Since the conventional food waste processor 100 is always used in an assembled state with the sink 101, when the food waste processor 100 is provided with a sink 101 in the kitchen, the existing sink is removed. Since it is necessary to install again after the installation, there is a problem in that the installation cost is excessively increased because a separate sink installation work is required.

In addition, since the food waste processor 100 is fixedly installed at the bottom of the sink 101, washing is not easy even after the grinding process, and there is a possibility that various bacteria, cockroaches, and the like may propagate.

In addition, the sink is for cooking food, but should always maintain cleanness, it is difficult to maintain the cleanliness with the conventional food waste processor 100, there is such a problem that the smell occurs.

In addition, even when the food waste processor is provided separately from the existing sink, there is an inconvenience and hygiene problem to move the food waste to a separate food waste container after filtering the food waste by the filter sieve of the sink drainage. Therefore, there exists a problem that it is difficult to maintain cleanliness, such as a bad smell.

The present invention has been conceived to solve the above problems, and can be easily combined with the upper portion of the existing sink filter body and provided as a separate body that is easy to move, minimizing the food waste treatment cost and related equipment installation cost, the versatility It is an object of the present invention to provide a food waste handler that can more economically manage the hygiene of the sink.

In addition, the food waste can be crushed, dehydrated, and dried automatically by simply combining it with the top surface of the sink manure sieve, and the hygienic food waste can be washed and dried by a series of operations. Another object is to provide a processor.

In order to achieve the above object, a food waste treatment machine according to the present invention includes a cylindrical body having an open lower portion so as to be coupled to and separated from the manure of the sink drain; A rack gear formed in an up and down direction inside the body; A pinion gear or a worm gear meshed with the rack gear; A shanghai motor for driving the pinion gear or the worm gear; The Shanghai copper motor is fixedly installed, characterized in that it consists of a predetermined grinding device for moving up and down along the rack gear to grind food waste in the manure body.

Wherein the grinding device includes a pinch gear or worm gear and the shank-type motor and a housing-type grinding drive unit moving up and down along the rack gear; A rotating shaft having one side rotatably fixed to the center of the grinding drive unit; One or more grinding blades fixedly coupled to the other side of the rotating shaft; It may be configured as a grinding motor provided inside the grinding drive unit to drive the rotating shaft.

In addition, the rotating shaft is formed of a hollow pipe, the pipe side is formed with one or a plurality of through holes, the grinding drive unit is connected to the rotating shaft for blowing air through the through hole; A control unit for controlling the operation of the Shanghai copper motor, the grinding motor and the blower may be further provided.

In particular, the through hole of the rotating shaft is preferably formed to be inclined 20 ° to 40 ° with respect to the tangent of the outer peripheral surface to face in the opposite direction of the rotation axis rotation direction.

In addition, the rotating shaft may be further formed with a protruding jaw in the front direction of the rotation of the through hole on the outer surface, the switch to control the operation of the shankdong motor at one side of the upper and / or lower end of the rotary shaft of the grinding drive unit It may be further provided.

Furthermore, the body may further include a coupling portion that is pressed and fixed to the upper inner side of the filter body at the bottom thereof, and may be further provided with a coupling button connected to the coupling portion to change the compression degree of the coupling portion.

In addition, the coupling portion and the operating shaft mounted to the lower case of the body; An operation period comprising a predetermined pressing part and a pressing part rotatably coupled to the working shaft; A connection member connected to the upper portion of the pressing portion between the operation and connected to the coupling button; One side between the operation may be made of an elastic member provided in the lower body case.

In addition, the inner side of the body may further form a track of a linear groove shape in one side or a plurality of places in the vertical direction, the outer side of the grinding drive portion may be further formed with a protrusion coupled to the track, the handle on the upper portion Is further attached, the coupling button and the operation switch of the control unit may be provided on each side of the handle.

In addition, the inner side of the body may be further provided with a plate-shaped shatterproof plate formed with a through hole in the center so that the rotating shaft is rotatable.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail an embodiment of the present invention.

First, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, the present invention is basically a cylindrical-shaped body 10 of the lower portion is opened so that it can be coupled to and separated from the filter body (3) of the sink (1) drain (2) ; A rack gear 20 formed in an up and down direction inside the body; A pinion gear or a worm gear 30 meshed with the rack gear; Shanghai copper motor 40 for driving the pinion gear or worm gear; The Shanghai copper motor is fixedly installed and comprises a predetermined crushing device 50 for moving up and down along the rack gear to crush the food waste in the manure body.

Therefore, when power is applied to the Shanghai copper motor 40, the grinding device 50 is moved up and down according to the rack gear 20 by the operation of the pinion gear or the worm gear 30. (3) The food waste in the inside will be crushed.

Here, when the pinion gear is used as the gear meshed with the rack gear 20, the shankdong motor 40 is decelerated so as to suppress the naturally occurring torque caused by the weight of the crushing device 50. It is preferable to use it as a motor.

And, the crushing device 50, as shown in Figure 4, the pinion gear or worm gear 30 and the shankdong motor 40, built-in box crushing to move up and down along the rack gear (20) A driving unit 52; A rotation shaft 54 rotatably fixed to one side at the center of the grinding drive unit; One or a plurality of grinding blades 56 fixedly coupled to the other side of the rotary shaft; It is preferable to include a grinding motor 58 provided inside the grinding drive unit so as to drive the rotating shaft.

By the configuration of the crushing device 50, the rotary shaft 54 can be rotated by the crushing motor 58 as well as the shanghai of the housing-type crushing drive unit 52 by the operation of the shankdong motor 40. As a result, one or a plurality of grinding blades 56 fixedly coupled to the other side of the rotary shaft 54 can move up and down and rotate, thereby crushing the food waste in the filtering body 3 more effectively. do. In particular, since the grinding blade 56 is pulverized while mixing the food residues in the upper and lower sides while moving up and down, there is an advantage that the effective grinding in a short time to improve the grinding capacity.

Here, the upper portion of the rotary shaft 54 is rotatably fixed to the center of the grinding drive unit 52, as shown in Figure 3, is fixed to the upper and lower surfaces (54c, 54d) of the center of the grinding drive unit 52 by a bearing It is more preferable, and it is more preferable to fix with a thrust bearing especially on the upper surface 54c.

In addition, the grinding blade 56 may be used in the form of one or two crosses, as shown in Figures 6 and 8, it is preferable to ensure that the ends of the grinding blade to all upward to protect the filter body (3). One, one end of the upward opposite end is to be able to be crushed on both sides of the bottom of the grinding blade to the bottom of the grinding blade, of course. In particular, as shown in Figure 8, when the crushing blade 56 is composed of two pairs of four blades, the two facing each other is rounded and the length is long, the food waste is crushed and pushed outwards at the same time the manure sieve (3) It is more preferable that the two opposite blades are sharp and relatively short, so that the food waste can be effectively cut.

In addition, the rotation shaft 54, as shown in Figure 4, is formed of a hollow pipe is formed, one or a plurality of through holes (54a) is formed in the pipe side, the grinding drive unit 52 is connected to the rotating shaft A blower (52a) for blowing air through the through hole; The control unit 52b for controlling the operation of the Shanghai copper motor, the grinding motor and the blower is further provided, one or a plurality of through holes 54a of the rotating shaft 54 when the food waste is crushed by the grinding blade 56. The food grounds may be dried by the wind supplied from

Here, the blower (52a) is more effective in drying the food waste crushed by the air blower that emits warm air.

In addition, in order to facilitate the operation of the blower 52a, a plurality of through-holes are formed in the upper surface of the grinding drive unit 52 and the body upper cover 19 so as to receive air from the outside (52h, 19h). It is desirable to.

Of course, the control unit 52b for controlling the operation of the Shanghai copper motor, the crushing motor and the blower, as shown in Figure 2, may be built in the handle 18 together with the operation switch 52c of the control unit 52b.

Here, the control unit may be a simple switch circuit, or may be a microcomputer type to store the operation mode (program) for the control target in advance.

In addition, the through hole 54a of the rotating shaft is formed to be inclined 20 ° to 40 ° with respect to the tangent of the outer circumferential surface so as to face in the direction opposite to the rotational direction “c” of the rotating shaft 54, as shown in FIG. 8. It is preferable that the ground food waste does not block the through hole 54a when the c) is rotated.

Here, when the inclination angle from the tangent of the outer circumferential surface is large, the projection jaw (54b) is further formed on the outer surface of the rotary shaft 54 in the forward direction of the through hole (54a), so that the crushed food waste is the through hole ( It is more preferable to prevent entering 54a).

In Figure 8, "f" shows the direction of the wind flowing through the through-hole 54a during the rotation of the rotary shaft 54.

And, in order to control the operation of the shankdong motor 30, the operation control switch (40a, 40b) of the shankdong motor at the upper end side of the grinding drive unit 52 and / or the lower end of the rotary shaft 54 6, when the lower end of the rotary shaft 54 reaches the bottom of the sieve 3, the switch 40b is operated to stop driving of the shanghai motor 30 or change the driving direction. As shown in FIG. 4, when the upper portion of the pulverization driving unit 52 reaches the upper body cover 19 as shown in FIG. 4, the switch 40a is operated to drive the shanghai motor 30. The rotation shaft 54 can be lowered by stopping or changing the driving direction.

Here, the operation control switch 40a, 40b of the Shanghai copper motor can be simply implemented as a push switch (limit switch) or the like, and further, any means capable of transmitting a signal to the controller 52b is sufficient. However, the switch 40b is preferably operated only when a predetermined pressure or more so as not to operate when the food waste is crushed.

As described above, by properly providing the operation control switch 40a, 40b of the Shanghai copper motor, even if the length of the existing sink (1) filter body 3 is different from each other, the food waste processor according to the embodiment of the present invention There is an advantage that can be used as an enemy.

And, the body 10, as shown in Figure 4, is further provided with a coupling portion 12 is fixed to the upper inner side of the filter body 3 and fixed to the lower body, the coupling portion 12 and the upper body Since the coupling button 14 is further provided to change the degree of compression of the coupling portion, the food waste processor can be easily disposed by the means without the need to hold the body by hand when crushing the food residues. ) Can be fixed to the top.

Here, the coupling button 14 may be provided on one side of the body 10, as shown in FIG. 2, may be provided on one side of the handle 18.

And, the coupling portion 12, more specifically, as shown in Figure 4 and 5, the operating shaft (12a) mounted to the lower case of the body (10); An operation section 12b composed of a predetermined pressing section 12b-1 and a compression section 12b-2 rotatably coupled to the operation shaft; A connection member 12c contacting the upper portion of the pressing portion 12b-1 between the operation and connected to the coupling button 14; One side of the operation 12b may be provided as an elastic member 12d on the lower case of the body 10 so as to be elastically supported.

Here, the connection member 12c, as shown in FIG. 4, may use an inelastic rod, of course, can use a rope, wire or the like.

In addition, the elastic member 12d is preferably a leaf spring which is easily in contact with the hinge arm portion of the operation 12b to which the pressing portion 12b-1 and the pressing portion 12b-2 are connected, but the pressing portion Tension and compression springs can also be used between the body and the body case.

Further, as shown in Fig. 5, the contact member 12b-3 may be further attached to the crimp portion 12b-2 between the operations, but the contact member 12b-3 may be silicone, rubber, urethane or synthetic rubber. Etc. can be used.

The disc 10 may further include a disc shatterproof plate 60 at a height that is supported on the inner circumferential surface of the body 10 and is not in contact with the grinding blade 56 by the vertical movement of the grinding blade 52. Here, the anti-scattering plate 60 has a through hole formed so that the rotating shaft 54 is rotatable in the center thereof, and the grinding blade 56 is rotated so that the food waste and water, which are finely chopped, the upper grinding drive part 52. It functions to prevent the scattering to the side. The shatterproof plate 60 is coupled to be fixed to the inner surface of the body 10 before the crushing drive unit 52 is mounted inside the body 10 and the crushing blade 56 is fastened.

In addition, the diameter of the body 10 may be configured to be similar to the diameter of the filter body (3) as shown in Figures 3, 4, 6 and 7, but larger than the diameter of the filter body (3) as shown in FIG. It may be. In the latter case, the members such as the grinding motor 58 and the shanghai motor 40 of the grinding apparatus 50 can be enlarged, so that the grinding and vertical movement can be more stably operated.

The operation of the coupling unit 12 configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 7.

First, when the food waste treatment device according to the present embodiment is mounted on the upper part of the filter sieve 3 of the sink, as shown in FIG. 3, the lower part of the body 10 is aligned with the upper part of the sink filter sieve 3 and the "a" direction is shown. 12b, the lower end of the pressing part 12b-1 is in contact with the upper part of the inlet of the filter body 3, or the weight of the food waste processor 12b is applied to the leaf spring 12d. The compression portion 12b-2 (adhesive member 12b-3) between the operations is directed to the upper wall surface of the sink filter body 3 while rotating in the " b " direction while overcoming the elastic force of the elastic force. The hinge arm of the operation 12b is pushed to squeeze the crimp 12b-2 between the operations to the upper wall surface of the sink filter 3 (FIG. 4).

On the contrary, when the food waste processor according to the present embodiment is detached from the upper part of the filter sieve 3 of the sink, as shown in FIG. 7, the coupling button 14 of the body handle 18 is pressed in the direction of "d". When the upper portion of the pressing portion 12b-1 of the operating rod 12b is pushed by the member 12c, the operating rod 12b overcomes the elastic force of the leaf spring 12d and rotates in the " e " direction to compress the operation. The portion 12b-2 (adhering member 12b-3) is separated from the upper wall surface of the sink filter body 3, and the elastic force by the leaf spring again pushes the hinge arm of the operation 12b to compress the operation. The portion 12b-2 is completely separated from the upper wall surface of the sink filter 3 (Fig. 3).

In addition, the configuration of the coupling portion 12 as described above, in particular, by the operation period 12b and the elastic member 12d, the length of the crimping portion (12b-2) of the operation interval 12b and the elastic If the member 12d is well selected, there is a big advantage in terms of versatility that the sink filter 3 can be widely used in sinks having different diameters.

And, the inner side of the body 10, as shown in Fig. 4, a linear groove-shaped track 16 is further formed on one side or a plurality of places, and the track (on the outer side of the grinding drive unit 52) It is preferable to further form a protrusion (not shown) coupled to the 16, so that the pulverization drive unit 52 is moved more stably than Shanghai at the same time along the recreation gear (20).

In this case, the track and the protrusion may be interchanged with each other. That is, the track may be formed on the outer side of the grinding drive unit 52, and the protrusion may be formed on the inner side of the body 10 coupled with the track.

Finally, the handle 18 is further formed on the upper portion of the body 10, the operation button 52c of the coupling button 14 and the controller 52b may be provided on one side of the handle 18, respectively. have.

By doing so, the food waste processor according to the present invention can be easily moved, and there is an advantage that the operation can be facilitated.

In addition, the reference numeral 52d is a power supply unit is supplied with power from the outside by the lead 11, the Shanghai copper motor 40, the grinding motor (under the control of the control unit 52b by the operation switch 52c) 58 and / or blower 52a.

Here, of course, the power supply 52d may be used as a separate charging unit (not shown).

As described above, the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, but this is merely to enable those skilled in the art to easily carry out the embodiments, and the technical spirit of the present invention is narrowly interpreted by the above embodiments. No

The food waste treatment machine according to the present invention is provided with a detachable means on the top wall of the sink strainer, so that the food waste can be processed at a lower cost than before, and the sink can be more hygienically managed.

In addition, by appropriately provided with a predetermined shangdong motor control switch and the body coupling portion, there is an effect that can be used universally in many existing sinks of different sizes of the filtering body.

Furthermore, by having a predetermined grinding blade and a rotating shaft formed with a through hole, finely crush the food waste, it is also possible to dry by dehydration and blowing, there is an effect to treat food waste more hygienic.

Claims (11)

A cylindrical body having an open lower portion so as to be coupled to and separated from the filter body of the sink drain; A rack gear formed in an up and down direction inside the body; A pinion gear or a worm gear meshed with the rack gear; A shanghai motor for driving the pinion gear or the worm gear; The Shanghai waste motor is fixedly installed food waste processor characterized in that it comprises a predetermined grinding device for moving up and down along the rack gear to crush the food waste in the manure body. The method of claim 1, The grinding device, A housing-type grinding and driving unit which includes the pinion gear or the worm gear and the shanghai copper motor and moves up and down along the rack gear; A rotating shaft having one side rotatably fixed to the center of the grinding drive unit; One or more grinding blades fixedly coupled to the other side of the rotating shaft; Food waste processor characterized in that it comprises a grinding motor provided inside the grinding drive unit to drive the rotating shaft. The method of claim 2, The rotating shaft is formed of a hollow pipe, the side of the pipe is formed with a plurality of through holes, The grinding drive unit is connected to the rotary shaft and blower for blowing air through the through hole; Food waste processor characterized in that the control unit for controlling the operation of the Shanghai copper motor, the grinding motor and the blower is further provided. The method of claim 3, wherein The through-hole of the rotating shaft is a food waste processor, characterized in that formed to be inclined 20 ° to 40 ° with respect to the tangent of the outer peripheral surface to face in the opposite direction of the rotation axis rotation direction. The method of claim 4, wherein The rotating shaft is a food waste processor, characterized in that the protruding jaw is further formed in the front direction in which the through hole is rotated. The method of claim 2, Food waste processor, characterized in that the switch further for controlling the operation of the Shanghai copper motor at the upper one side and the lower end of the rotary shaft of the grinding drive unit. The method according to any one of claims 3 to 5, The body, The lower portion is further provided with a coupling portion that is compressed and fixed to the upper inside of the filter body, Food waste processor, characterized in that the coupling button is further connected to the coupling portion to change the compression degree of the coupling portion in the upper portion. The method of claim 7, wherein The coupling part, An operating shaft mounted to a lower case of the body; An operation period comprising a predetermined pressing part and a pressing part rotatably coupled to the working shaft; A connection member connected to the upper portion of the pressing portion between the operation and connected to the coupling button; Food waste processor, characterized in that made of an elastic member provided in the lower body case so that one side between the operation. The method of claim 7, wherein The inner side of the body further forms a track of a straight groove shape in one side or a plurality of places in the vertical direction, Food waste processor, characterized in that the protrusion is further formed on the outer side of the grinding drive unit coupled to the track. The method of claim 7, wherein A handle is further attached to the upper portion of the body, the food waste processor, characterized in that the coupling button and the operation switch of the control unit are provided on each side of the handle. The method of claim 7, wherein Food waste processor, characterized in that the inner side of the body is further provided with a plate-shaped shatterproof plate formed with a through hole in the center so that the rotating shaft is rotatable.

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